#QuickSidenote Long before it became a stadium chant, 3 Bridgeport, CT teenagers, Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo, & Dale Frashuer, first sketched the then-unreleased song as a bluesy shuffle in the early ’60s, back when they were in a doo-wop group… #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #DaleFrashuer #OneHitWondered
#QuickSidenote In 1969, Steam earned US #OneHitWonder honors with “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.” Steam was a studio project built by producer Paul Leka, engineer Warren Dewey & singer Gary DeCarlo... So, Paul Leka is a US #OneHitWonder honoree, too! #Steam #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #OneHitWondered
#QuickSidenote In 1969, Steam earned US #OneHitWonder honors with “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.” Steam was a studio project built by producer Paul Leka, engineer Warren Dewey & singer Gary DeCarlo... So, Paul Leka is a US #OneHitWonder honoree, too! #Steam #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #OneHitWondered
#Interestingly So, Steam wasn’t a real touring band (at least at first.) It was a studio project built by producer Paul Leka, engineer Warren Dewey & singer Gary DeCarlo. The single came out on Fontana, which was a Mercury subsidiary… #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #Steam #OneHitWondered
#Interestingly Mercury (notably Bob Reno) loved it! They didn’t want to release it under the Garrett Scott name, because they still planned to release those other ‘hits’ that’d been recorded… so they ‘invented’ a band on paper… Steam. #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #Steam #OneHitWondered
#Interestingly Paul Leka basically pitched Gary DeCarlo to Mercury as a marketable solo act... and Mercury agreed, but they didn’t want ‘Gary DeCarlo.’ They wanted a stage name…. So DeCarlo became ‘Garrett Scott.’ #Steam #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #GarrettScott #OneHitWondered
#Interestingly "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" can be traced back to 1961, when three Bridgeport, Connecticut teenagers cowrote an unreleased/unrecorded song they called "Kiss Him Goodbye." The three teenagers were Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo, & Dale Frashuer. #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #OneHitWondered
#OneHitHistory The week ending November 8, 1969, NYC studio project Steam earned US #OneHitWonder honors when “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #22. The single spent 13 weeks on the chart, including two at the #1 spot! #Steam #PaulLeka #GaryDeCarlo #OneHitWondered
